This image is a waist-up view of Manning. Image is clear with very good contrast. Nice mount with pencil "Manning" below image. Photographer's backmark in form of printed paper label is pasted to the back. Quinby & Co., Charleston, SC.

John Lawrence Manning (January 29, 1816 – October 24, 1889) was the 65th Governor of South Carolina, from 1852 to 1854. He was born in Clarendon County. He attended South Carolina College, where he was a member of the Euphradian Society.

In 1838, John L. Manning married Susan Frances Hampton (1816–1845), daughter of General Wade Hampton. John Manning and his wife had Millford Plantation built in 1839 near Pinewood, South Carolina. It is now a National Historic Landmark.

According to the 1860 United States Slave Census Schedule John Manning owned 670 enslaved African-Americans, making him the 6th largest American slave owner at the time.

He is interred in the churchyard at Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia, South Carolina.

This image was from the collection of the late William A. Turner.  [jet]  [PH:L]

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